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Use mdy dates|date=February 2011Year dab|1Year nav|1M1 year in topic NOTOC Year 1 ( Roman numerals|I ) was a common year starting on Saturday or Common year starting on Sunday|Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see Julian calendar#Leap year error|leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Saturday of the Proleptic Julian calendar . At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gaius Caesar|Caesar and Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 1)|Paullus (or, less frequently, ' year 754 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 1 for this year has been used since the early Middle Ages|medieval period , when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. It was the first year of the Anno Domini|Christian / Common Era|Common era. The preceding year is 1 BC in the widely used Julian calendar, which does not have a " 0 (year)|year zero ".
Events
By place
Roman Empire
Tiberius , under order of Augustus , quells revolts in Germania (1– 5 ).
Gaius Caesar and Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 1)|Lucius Aemilius Paullus are appointed consuls.
Gaius Caesar marries Livilla , daughter of Antonia Minor and Nero Claudius Drusus , in an effort to gain prestige.
Quirinius becomes a chief advisor to Gaius in Armenia. Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32)|Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus , whose father Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC)|Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus had served as consul in 16 BC , also serves in the Armenia campaigns.
The Aqua Alsietina aqueduct is constructed.
Areius Paianeius becomes Archon of Athens .
Asia
The Yuanshi Era|Yuanshi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty begins.
Confucius is given his first royal title ( posthumous name ) of Lord Baochengxun Ni.
Emperor Ping of Han China begins his reign and Wang Mang is re-instated as regent by Grand Empress Dowager Wang .
Former regent Dong Xian commits suicide.
Sapadbizes , Yuezhi prince and King of Kushan Empire|Kush ( Bactria ), dies. Heraios succeeds him as king.
Africa
The Kingdom of Aksum , centered in modern day Ethiopia and Eritrea , is founded (approximate date).
Amanishakheto , Queen of Kingdom of Kush|Kush ( Nubia ), dies. Her son, Natakamani , becomes King of Kush.
Americas
Moxos people|Moxos ceases to be a significant religious area in South America (approximate date).
The Teotihuacan culture in Mesoamerica begins (approximate date).
By topic
Arts and sciences
The poem Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses is written by Ovid .
Livy writes his monumental History of Rome ( Ab Urbe Condita (book)|Ab Urbe Condita ).
Religion
Birth of Jesus , as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to at least one scholar.Georges Declercq, Anno Domini: The origins of the Christian Era (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp.143–147.G. Declercq, "Dionysius Exiguus and the introduction of the Christian Era", Sacris Erudiri 41 (2002) 165–246, pp.242–246. Annotated version of a portion of Anno Domini . However, most scholars think Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in the previous year, 1 BC . Despite this, most modern scholars do not consider Dionysius' calculations authoritative, placing the event several years earlier (see Chronology of Jesus ).James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered , Eerdmans Publishing (2003), page 324.
Births
Lucius Annaeus Gallio , Roman proconsul (d. 65 )
Quinctilius Varus , son of Publius Quinctilius Varus and Claudia Pulchra (d. c. 27 )
Pallas (freedman)|Pallas , Greek Freedman and political advisor (d. 63 )
Deaths
Arshak II of Iberia , king of Caucasian Iberia|Iberia of the Nimrodid Dynasty
